RE: [xml-dev] save XML into database

>     Has anyone suggested saving to the file system, and just using
>     an SQL database as index? It makes it easier to manipulate the
>     collection with XSLT. It's what I do.

You don't get backup, transaction support and locking that way, but yes,
it's often a practical thing to do especially in an environment where the
XML documents are immutable and the only change is to add new documents to
the collection.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/